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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself. Take pictures of yourself wearing silly hats. Take pictures of your ... permission, of course.) Work on problem sets. Consider procrastinating on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  Universe is one of the highest-grossing media franchises. Being a superhero ... I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  the feeling of awe at the university — but also trying to figure out ... place. A very special place with so much to offer; but also, the parts of ... fun of the architecture a lot here, but sometimes, MIT really does look

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... because my mind was swarmed with thoughts, thoughts of what my decision

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . The University of Missouri incidents over the month of November started ... uncontrollably to physically violent threats and the resignation of the university’s ... incidents at University of Missouri, though arguably MU’s incidents were more

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  admitted students weekend of another school in the Northeast, which we ... . Three. The process of growing up is that of continual disenchantment, of ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the campus of a community college, forty-five minutes from my house. It was a ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities ... . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of it will not make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education"]OME[/annotation]—likely my freshman year [annotation note=" My senior year of high school, I ... whole thing has a couple of parts: a class component the summer before

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  several offers to, um, join a tour of certain lesser-known parts of the ... offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  was a remarkably warm day today, with highs of 20 degrees. It was the ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  University, Boston University, Olin College of Engineering, Berklee College of ... chose to do a Southeast-Asian-themed array of flavors, offering ube ... three main housing options (listed below in order of increasing personal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  Perpendicular Universe, Exactly, Over 9,000: an Abbreviated Yet Awesome Tour Of ... universe in a vending machine to get a cup of coffee. After recovering the ... lockboxes didn't really make sense in-universe. Then there was the concept of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  attending one of the most challenging and respected universities in the world ... yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  -Gurion University makes this place a college town. Students are in the midst of finals ... University, Prof. Ilana Natan This post was first published on Ben Bell in Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within ... Dark Materials and the residents of our universe know these particles as ... (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  universe, etc.) even though we're thousands of miles apart (she grew up in ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it ... doing a bunch of things even though I don't have any classes. If you

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of ... next morning. Yes, this is totally awesome. It reminds me of MIT. It also

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011